Member
Unit Leader : Lam-Son Phan TRAN, Ph.D. EDUCATION
- 09/1994-08/1997: Szent Istvan University, Hungary
Qualification: Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Science - 09/1988-08/1994: Szent Istvan University, Hungary
Qualification: Master of Sciences in Agricultural Sciences (specialised in Biotechnology)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
- 01/2009-current: Unit Leader, Signaling Research Pathway Unit, Gene Discovery Research Group, RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resouce Science, Yokohama, JAPAN.
- 08/2007-12/2008: Senior Research Scientist, Soybean Genomics and Biotechnology Laboratory, Division of Plant Science, National Center for Soybean Biotechnology, University of Missouri-Columbia, MO, USA.
- 10/2003-07/2007: Special Researcher, Biological Resources Division, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS).
- 10/2001-09/2003: JIRCAS fellow, Biological Resources Division, Japan International Research Center for Agricultural Sciences (JIRCAS).
- 02/2001-09/2001: JSPS postdoctoral fellow, Department of Microbial Cell Biology, Graduate School of Biological Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology.
- 12/1998-11/2000: STA postdoctoral fellow at Applied Bacteriology Laboratory, Division of Microbiology, National Food Research Institute, Tsukuba, Japan.
- 07/1998-11/1998: Senior Researcher of Phylaxia company in conjunction with Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics of Szent Istvan University, Hungary.
- 09/1997-06/1998: Researcher of Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Molecular Genetics Group in conjunction with Department of Biotechnology and Molecular Genetics of Szent Istvan University, Hungary.
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Signaling pathway(s) regulating stress (drought, high salinity and cold) responses and plant development in Arabidopsis model plant and important crops, such as soybean.
- Improvement of stress tolerance of economically important crops.
- Unit Leader
- Lam-Son Phan TRAN
- Research Scientist
- Rie NISHIYAMA
- Research Scientist
- Weiqiang LI
- International Program Associate
- Cuong Duy TRAN
- Technical Staff
- Yasuko WATANABE
- Contract Technical Assistant
- Yuko KANEKO
- Assistant
- Ayako SATO
Alumni
Mostofa Mohammad GOLAM (Visiting Researcher)
Yu LI (Student Trainee)
Chien Van HA (Technical Staff)
Taeko KAWADA (Contract Technical Assistant)
Uyen Thi TRAN (Contract Technical Assistant)
Maryam NASR ESFAHANI (Visiting Scientist)
Assistant Professor, Lorestan University, Iran
Saad SULIEMAN MOHAMED (Visiting Scientist)
Associate Professor, Head of Department of Agronomy, University of Khartoum, Sudan
Dung Tien LE (Foreign Postdoctoral Researcher)
Vice Director, National Key Laboratory of Plant Biotechnology, Vietnam
Noriko DOI (Contract Technical Assistant)